Game 10: Canadiens win in stunning comeback

I was at a Hallowe'en party, and they had the game on for a while. My aquaintance (who an only be an aquiantance, you see, for he is a silly Toronto fan) was rather perturbed by the fact that the guys did so well the other night. He exclaimed after the game; "Holy ***, that was scarier than the horror movies we were watching!" I like to think that most other silly Toronto fans reacted the same way, crawling away with their tails between their legs. :)

Today's useless tidbit. All the points leaders wear visors. Nice to see Saku there. Howd'ya like them apples, Mr CHerry? A Hab is a Hab is a Hab, you see...

Olympics are in just over a year not 2 years!

Huge Price fan but 2010 starter will still be Brodeur with Luongo as backup. Price may be #3 but will have competition for that spot from Fleury.

so D'agostini is tearing it up in Hamilton with 6 goals, Maxwell has 5 goals, and Pac is starting to get points, as well Weber. I bet we see 1 or 2 of them beginning of the year. I'd love to see Pacioretty and Weber. Can't wait!

Can someone tell me how Weber is playing in Hamilton? has he scored any goals? How about Pac?

I watched the game last night on my dish, with the NY feed, because I wanted to see the game from a NY perspective, but I was blown away during the 1st intermission, by Stan Fischler. I mean, I knoe he's biased in favor of the Isles, but to call Price:"cocky and inept", is totally unacceptable and irresponsible journalism. Does anyone have his website address? I think all us hab fans should email him, or better still, let's send him a letter,denigrating him for his disrespectable comments about Price, and sign it with a few hundred hab fans. I'm really infuriated by his maronic and untelligent remarks! Everyone mark down Nov 24th. that's the date when the Islanders play in Mtl. Let's pound that team, and show that idiot whar we're all about!

I have a meeting with Don the Cherry on Thursday about another project that I am working on for the OHL. I am going to give him a Habs Tie with the 100th logo on it. We will see if he has the balls to wear it on Saturday night.

was just looking up stats on some habs prospects in hamilton and junior: PK Subban in 13 games with Belleville 5 g 13 a = 18 pts. i hope he ends up playing for us in a couple of years. great kid. great personality. i hope his skills continue to improve to make him a good NHL defenseman for us.

It's great to read all the excitement about last night's come from b win. I was at a Boston Pizza with my eldest son in LaSalle last night, eating pizza on the bar side for the first two periods and sipping coffee on the restaurant side for the 3rd. I really felt the Habs weren't out of it after two. The noise level when we began scoring each of the 4 comeback goals was deafening among the clientele. Now, the Habs have to begin playing earlier, we all agree. But, at this early stage in the season, after 10 at 8-1-1 there are a lot of positives. Where the Habs are rich, aside from the on-ice potential, is behind the bench and uptstairs. This will carry us through some of the bumps that will begin shortly with many games over a short span. Compared to last year, I see many improvements aside from the new player additions: 1-despite a poor PP, a slightly better than ave PK, 5 on 5 the Habs are among the top 3 in the NHL. This means we don't have to rely on the PP so much. Last year 5 on 5 was around 1 and now it's around 1.5. A huge difference. 2. Face-offs (top 3-4 this year): last year we were around 49%, this year 54%. Without Lang doing much but with a significant improvement from Lapierre (around 54%). 3. We are much more stable in nets, despite two so-so games in the last week. Both Price and Halak are doing the job. 4. 3 scoring lines potentially this year vs two last. And without much of a contribution from AK, SK among a couple of others. 5. La cerise sur le sundae, as we say in French, is Tanguay. Nowhere did we have such a quality winger on our second (sic) line last year. All due respect to Higgins. Tanguay brings creativity, speed, finesse and is about to become an elite player in the NHL. He'll give back to Koivu a couple of years of youth. 6. Chemistry is like an ageing wine. One more year makes quite a difference. The Habs are becoming an excellent Beaujolais. Nobody is griping or wining. Some players are playing less than previous years and accepting it for the good of the team. Also, Carbo in bringing Koivu down to 14-15 min per game is increasing his efficiency and productivity. Koivu's stamina in past years could be a concern. I don' think it will be this. 7. Injuries are not a big concern so far. Like last year. But this year, with three balanced lines, with the kids from Hamilton pushing the vets to perform, if there were a couple of injuries, they'll be there, starting with D'Agostini who is having a phenomenal year so far in Hamilton. Better balance on 3 lines, slightly less playing time for most means less injuries over the course of a long season I believe. These are why the Habs are for real. Un pour tous, tous pour un, as les Trois Mousquetaires used to say. It is truly the Canadiens motto. Regards, Georges D BTW: one stat I follow throughout the season is Team winning percentage. Habs are first at 850. Can't do much better I believe.

Hamilton Bulldogs beat the Marlies in a shootout as Lehoux, Glumac and Pacioretty scored during the shootout as Max got the winner. Desharnais scored the lone Dawgs goal in regulation and Marc Denis made 30 saves for the victory.

Great to see Pleks and Higgins break through last night. Now all we need to do is the tits brothers going and we'll be unstoppable. New Blog: http://coasttocoasthabs.blogspot.com/

Now, I REALLY wish I hadn't quit watching out of frustration at the thought of losing to the league's worst team--or is Atlanta the worst? Anyway, tough break for Yann--I've been hoping he'd get another shot at the NHL at some point, it's just too bad for him that he had to get his shot on such a brutal squad. Good to see Plekanec and Kovalev get some much needed pointage. Habs rule, Leafs drool...

wasn;t home for the game so i recorded it. i was avoiding all my txt messages in case my friends were updating or hinting me about the habs play or score. came back home after midnight and watched the whole telecast. all i can say is the team knows they can win. they have that mentality where, we know we can play 15-20 minutes a game and knotch a WIN. That is good and bad. But last night's game showed when we want to go all out and give 110%, we can. IT's one of those games where some fans, would have closed their TV and did something else. And when they found out the final score, they would say I can't believe I missed that! hehe I was on a time-delay b/c I watched it later, but I felt they were going to turn on the juice and really challenge these Islanders. It was quite exciting, don't you fans think? (#) HABSolut HOCKEY

Bruins Den Getting Cocky - Star Dimmers .. by Dan Rowinski ..... http://www.hockeyjournal.com/Article.php?ArtID=651872 ............................................ The Avery Effect .. by Matt Kalman ..... http://www.hockeyjournal.com/Article.php?ArtID=431133

Canadiens DVD Released November 4 http://wwweyesontheprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/canadiens-dvd-released-nov... I gather that many Canadiens fans are anxious for this one! To get anxious myself for this release, I scanned You Tube for some vintage clips and came up with these beauties. Perhaps the oldest colour film of the Canadiens is from a hand held camera in 1956. These final minutes of game 5 against Detroit is the beginning of the Canadiens 5 Cup run. Near the end of the clip, you can see the Canadiens players hoist coach Toe Blake on the shoulders before Rocket Richard carries the Cup off the ice.

Look... Carey Price is not playing well??? um... His stats are spectacular... Yes he had an off night last night... but out of the 10 games we played, he has not played many bad ones. Number 2.. For a 21 year old, he is doing a great job.. yes he will mature... In the playoffs last year he was learning like the other young guys how it is in the NHL... Not easy.... Did Saint Patrick never havea bad game or goal... Does Brodeur have bad games.. It will happen in an 82 game schedule... People have nothing else better to do than pick on one of the best guys on our team... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Koivu for Prime Minister...

STAN FISCHLER SUCKS, he sucks today, he sucked yesterday and he sucked every decade since the 60's. He hates the Canadiens so much that he probably said that Dryden sucks after the 79 finals. After I heard about what he said about Carey I dedicated a page from my web site to him, and his ideals. sholi2000.com God Bless Our Infantry 2PPCLI

Accept the fact that we love Carey because he is our goaltender just like the Leafs revere Toskala. Carey was average at best in the playoffs last year for many reasons that are well chronicled. He is a young goalie that appear to have the pedigree and the skill to become a great goalie. As it stands he has proven nothing. Until a goalie takes his team deep in the pressure packed playoffs he is simply another good goalie, one of many. Roy and Dryden proved it, until CP gets it done he is still only a "future" star goalie. I'm from Missouri, you've got to show me."

Carey Price is not stiff. He's got some good points and bad points (actually discussed here: http://habsbros.blogspot.com/2008/11/plusminus-carey-price.html), but he's no stiff. Now to call him the franchise goalie may be a little bit of a leap at this stage of his career. I mean, that's like saying that Gui! is going to be a premier power forward. You hope for it, and you've seen the signs, but the glaring mistakes are very visible. The thing about Carey is someone needs to teach him to be more Zen. There are things you'd never catch Brodeur doing, but Price does all the time. For example, he's always trying to keep the play going instead of playing it safe and covering the puck. And even when he's got TWO d-men standing beside him, he still tries to throw it up the boards. He just has to calm down a bit. But it's early in the season yet. By the end of the season, he'll probably have calmed down and anyone who thinks he's a stiff now will be eating their words then.

So, it's not politically correct to talk about this, but I'm glad its finaly been said on the air... I watched last night's Isles broadcast of the game on Center Ice ( best you can do in California) and Stan Fischler commented between periods, as follows, when asked about Carey Price, following more weak goals.... "I think the guy is a stiff. He is not playing well and I sepcially did not like the way he playerd against Philly in the playoffs last year....." The truth hurts. But Carey will be "Scary Carey" if he does not get his head together ( this may come with maturity). But his glaring weakness is, and this one may not be able to be solved,his disfunctional glove hand... Its going to be a heck of a ride... number 25 in 2009

http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=calleditte8.jpg I called it! "Ok. Good night all." "Thats what people said last year against the Rangers"

If the Habs play like they did last night, 9 times out of 10 they'll end up with a loss. 10 games into a long season, I have yet to see a complete game. Price & most of his teammates left their A-game at ground zero. Glad they came back but was not very impressed with playing only 20 minutes. Do that next Saturday against the Leafs and it will be lights out.

a few comments. firstly, I'm not sure getting Laraque has paid off. He has fought in 3 fights, and lost all of them. Aside from the fighting, what else has he contributed? nothing at all, especially considering that he has not played much at all. Secondly, the reason our D isn't working well, is simple. The forwards are not coming back to help out the D, as well there is too much gap between D and forwards. thirdly, why does it take the habs 20-40 minutes/game, to wake up and start playing? Is it laziness or feeling of complscency? And as far as us having 4 good lines, that's not the case. Yes we have the Koivu line and Kovalev line, but what has our 3rd line done? Lang, SK74, and whomever is the other linemate, have little offensively. I love my habs dearly and always have, but let's not start the parade yet. We need to fix our D, and 3rd line. I mean, unless we consider our D and offence as good as Detroit, there's lots of areas for improvement. And yes our record is very good, so far, but the test will be when we play above asverage teams like Detroit, NJ, NYR, SJ. If we beat the upper echillon teams, then we can start to rejoice, until then, let's keep it in check. Go habs go!